Each year, the CSCC invites leading experts to Penn to present their research and share their knowledge about contemporary China. Typically scheduled for Wednesday afternoons 4:30-6 pm, speakers will deliver their remarks and then entertain questions from the audience. Attendance is open to the entire Penn community. Announcements about upcoming talks will be posted on the CSCC website and disseminated via the Center’s listserv. To be added to the listserv, please visit our signup page https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cscc-announce.
Upcoming Speaker Series
David Nelson Rowe, China, and How the History of IR’s New Right Was Lost
Robert Vitalis, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
“Simply put, China was an integral part of what made the “New Right” new. –Joyce Mao
“Twenty years is about the length of time it takes a group of academics to storm the ramparts, take the…
China and Climate Change: Transnational Science, Politics, and Policy in Historical Perspectives
Zuoyue Wang, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
In the burgeoning field of historical studies of climate change, few studies exist that focus on Chinese policy making and US-China scientific interactions in the early years. In this talk I review Chinese public…
A Case for Dualism in the Chinese Legal System
Hualing Fu, Professor of Law, Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities, University of Hong Kong
The Chinese legal system embodies a unique duality under a constitutional trinity: the Communist Party's leadership, responsiveness to popular demand, and legality. The Party's dominance is central, and its prerogative…
Guanchang Meixue: Heart Distress and Aesthetic Attunement in China’s Bureaucracy
Jie Yang, Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
The “aesthetic turn” in both political thought and mental health care centers around Western aesthetics and Euro-American psychology. This paper attempts to indigenize both by focusing on “bureaucratic aesthetics” in…
The Future of the South China Sea Dispute: Perspectives from the Philippines
Justice Antonio Carpio, Supreme Court of the Philippines
Co-sponsored by Perry World House.
The South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea remain geopolitically fraught locations. The People’s Republic of China has successfully militarized the region…
TBA
Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Past Speaker Series
The Specter of Global China: Is Chinese Capital a Different Kind of Capital?
Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Drawing on data collected through comparative ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese investments in Zambia in the past five years, this talk seeks to answer the questions: What is the peculiarity of Chinese capital?…
Constitutional Review on Taiwan: Review and Prospects
Dennis Te-Chung Tang, Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Constitutional judicial review—the authority of a court to declare a decision by a state organ unconstitutional—has existed in Taiwan since 1949 and has developed dramatically since then. Decisions by…
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Town Hall with Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang, Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
6:00 PM - Presentation by Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7:00 PM - Live national webcast on U.S.-China Relations
China's…
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Daniel Bell, Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholars program, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Director of the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture.
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades,…
Gender and Professional Career: The Feminization of Judges in China
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Since the 1990s, the number of women in Chinese courts has been increasing steadily. More importantly, many female judges have risen to mid-level leadership positions, such as division chiefs, in the judicial…
I Am From Xinjiang
Kurbanjan Samat, Photographer, Central China TV
Kurbanjan Samat is of Uyghur nationality, born in Hotan, Xinjiang. He is a member of China Photographers Association, China Folklore Photographic Association(CFPA), member of China Uyghur History and Culture…
Internationalization of the Renminbi? -- Prospects and Challenges
Shen Wei, Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University Law School
"Internationalization" of the Renminbi has been an important economic and foreign policy goal for China. And it is a precondition to China's currency becoming a…
China’s Economic Statecraft in North Korea
Dr. James Reilly, Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Since 2005, Chinese officials have successfully encouraged Chinese companies to expand trade and investment in North Korea through diplomatic support, infrastructure projects, foreign aid, and investment…
East Asian Regionalism, China, and US: is the Pacific wide enough for US and China?
Shiping Tang, Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai, China
Terrorism Challenges in China
Phil Potter, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
The Chinese government is increasingly challenged by mounting problems with militancy and terrorism emanating from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. China’s economic and political emergence has…
